Hatbox



Sept/30,1941. A, BE E 2,257,151

HATBOX Filed Dec. 1a, 1958 2 Sheeis-Sheet "1 1N VENTOR.

Hal/ran Berke. BY

ATTORNEY.

Patented Sept. 30, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HATBOX Aaron Berke, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application December 13, 1938, Serial No. 245,338

6 Claims.

The present invention relates to hat boxes having means therein for holding or anchoring the hat against any shift thereof in the box which might cause the trimmings on the hat to be crushed or injured, or the hat to become misshapen.

.Heretofore, various forms of such anchoring means have been provided. So far as I am aware, however, such previously existing hat anchors have been constructed independently of the box, as separate articles of manufacture, to be used or omitted at the will of the box manuiacturer or dealer.

An object of the present invention is a hat box and anchor formed from one and the same piece of sheet material, by folding such sheet piece, or blank, along fold lines demarked thereon.

A further object of the invention is a blank of such shape as to involve practically no wastage in the cutting of a multiplicity of such blanks from a single larger sheet, and which, for the shaping thereof into an integral box and anchor, requires no cutouts or loss of material.

A further object of the invention is a system of fold lines and slits in a blank of the character mentioned, such that, without any severing of one part of the blank from the rest of the blank, the combined box and anchor may be formed therefrom by a minimum of manipulations, and with great rapidity.

Other objects and features of the invention will more fully appear upon reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the combined box and hat holder.

Fig. 2 is a view in cross sectional side elevation, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view in cross sectional side elevation, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which the box and anchor are formed.

Referring to the drawings, the box is shown as having a bottom I0, and side Walls II, I2, I3, and I4. The bottom is shown as a single piece, as are also the Walls II and I3. The wall I2 is made of two pieces I2 and I2; and the wall I4 in two pieces I4 and I4. The several sections of the blank shown in Fig. 4 are given the same reference numerals as the box elements which they represent in the erected box.

The opposed single-piece Walls II and I3 are hinged to the corresponding edges of the bottom I on the fold lines I5 and I 6. The wall section II is laterally extended to have a flap I2 at the left side thereof, and the flap I4 at the right 55 side thereof. The flaps I2 and I4 are connected to the wall section II at fold lines I! and I8 respectively. These fold lines I I and I8, in the blank of Fig. 4, are linear extensions of fold lines I9 and 20 which demark the left and right edges of the bottom, between the edges I5 and I6 of the latter. In the set up box, the fold line I! is perpendicular to, and in the same plane with, the bottom edge I9, and the fold line I8 is perpendicular to and in the same vertical plane with the bottom edge 20, in the set up box. The fold lines 2| and 22, which in Fig. 4 demark the inner longitudinal edges of the flaps I2 and I4 are, in that figure, shown as linear extensions of the fold line I5 which demarks the line of connection of wall section II to the bottom I0.

Similarly, the wall section I3 is laterally extended to have a flap I2 at the left side thereof, and a flap I4 at the right side thereof. Flaps I2 and I4 are connected to the wall section I3 at fold lines 23 and 24 respectively; and lines 23 and 24, in the blank of Fig. 4, are linear extensions, respectively, of the fold lines I9-I'I, and 2III8. In the set up box, fold line 23 is vertical to line I9 and in the same vertical plane with fold lines I9 and I1; and the fold line 24 is vertical to and in the same vertical plane with fold lines 20 and I8. The fold lines 25 and 26, which in Fig. 4, demark the inner longitudinal edges of the flaps I2 and I4", are in that figure shown as linear extensions of the fold line I6 which demarks the line of connection of wall section I3 to the bottom I0.

When the box is erected, see Fig. 1, the flaps I2 and I2, which together form the side walls I2, partly overlap. In the overlapping part of flap I2 is a slit 21; and in the overlapping part of flap I2" is stamped a hook-shaped tab 28 adapted to be inserted in the slit 21, whereby to lock the two wall sections together. Similarly, when the box iserected, the flaps I4 and M, which together form the side wall I4, partly overlap. In the overlapping part of flap I4 is a slit 29; and in the overlapping part of flap I4 is stamped a hook-shaped tab 30 adapted to be inserted in the slot 29, whereby to lock the two wall sections together.

Thesections I2 and I2" of wall I2 are connected to the edge IQ of the bottom by a web composed of a central part 3| and end parts 32 and 33. A fold line 34, extending across the web from the point of intersection of fold lines I9 and 2I, and at an angle of degrees to each of the lines I9 and 2|, serves to demark the end section 32 of the web from the central section 3| thereof. A fold line 35, extending perpendicularly to the fold line 34, from the point of intersection of fold lines i9 and 25, serves to demark the end section 33 of the web from the central section 3| thereof. A similar web, composed of a central section 36 and end sections bottom I5, they carry the web sections 3i, 32 and V 33 with them. If during, or after, this movement, the wall sections ll and I3 are swu'ng up on the fold lines l5 and it, into planes p'erpendicular to the bottom 10, the web Will fold on the lines 34 and 35 and be swung into the box, until the web central part 3! lies flat on the upper surface of the bottom, with web end parts 32 and 33 fiat on top of the web central part 3l..all web parts then lying within the margin IQ of the box bottom. In practice, the wall parts l4 and M", with web parts 36, 31 and '38,.are swung up simultaneously with the wall parts i2" and I2" and web parts 3|, 32 and 33, so that when the wall sections H and I3 are swung as aforesaid, the webs at both sides of the box are simultaneously folded and swung into the box, and down flat against the bottom thereof,in manner aforesaid. 1

Referring to Fig. 4,'it will be noted that that part of the blank lying above the edge l9 of the bottom, and between the wall parts l2 and i2, is cut through on curves 4i and 42, which incidentally demark the outer edges of the web end sections 32 and 33; and which extends to points 43 and 44 of the web central part 3!, partially outlining the latter. The outline of the central web part 3! is completed by a fold line 45, extending from one to the other of the terminal points 43 and 44 of the cuts 4i and 42, parallel to the fold line 59 of the box bottom. Above the fold line 45, and having its, inner edge demarked by that fold line and by the cuts 48 and 42, is a flap 46 of general cresent shape, the outer edge 41 of which is formed by a curved cut in the edge of the rectangular blank of Fig. 4. The flap 46 constitutes part of the hat anchor.

Adjacent the bottom iii, between the wall flaps l4 and I4", is a similar, but conversely shaped flap 43, the inner edge of which is defined by curved cuts 49 and 50, and fold line 5|; and the outer edge of which is defined by a curved cut 52 in the edge of the blank. This flap constitutes another part of the hat anchor. These hat anchor parts 46 and 43 are carried into the box body with the web sections 3| and 33 when the wall sections are folded as aforesaid in theerection of the box; and, when so within the box, extend toward, and partly overlap, each other at their ends.

Referring again to Fig. 4, it will be noted that at the upper end of hat anchorpart 46, between the lines of cuts 4! and 41, is a hook-shaped end tab 53, and that at the opposite end thereof, between the cuts 42 and 41, is a slit 54; Also at the end of the opposed anchor part 48, between the cuts 59 and 52, is a slit 55, and at the opposite end thereof, between the cuts 43 and 52, is a hook-shaped tab 56.

Asshown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the hook tab 53 on anchor part 43 is so positioned withrespect to the slit 55 in anchor part 48, that hook 53 may be passed into slit 55 to hold the anchor parts together at one side :of the anchor; and the hook tab 56 on anchor part 48 is so positioned with respect to the slit 5 4 in anchor part 46, that hook 56 may be passed into slit 54 to hold the anchor parts together at the other side of the anchor.

When, therefore, in the erection of the box, 7

the anchor sections 46 and 48 have been swung, with the web sections 3! and 36, into the interior of the box, and the wall sections l2, [2", I4, and 14" have been locked in the manner aforesaid, the anchor parts 46 and 4B are swung upwardon fold lines 45 and 5| until hook 53 registers with slit 55, and hook 56 with slit 54; whereupon the anchor hooks are inserted into the anchor slits, to form the anchor.

In the modification of the invention shown in the drawings, the anchor parts 46 and 48 are so shaped that the anchor assumes a frusto-conical shape, the upper and lower edges whereof lie in planes parallel to the box bottom. The parts of the blank between the wall flaps may, however,

be variously shaped, cut, or provided with fold lines to eifect the erection of hat anchors of widely varying styles.

I claim:

1. An article of manufacture, consisting of a sheet having fold lines which define the bottom and side wall elements of a hat box body, twoof said fold lines being lines along which two of said side wall elements are hinged to the bottom element, and each of said. two side wall elements being laterally extended to include other side 7 2. An article of manufacture, consisting of a sheet having fold lines which define the bottom and side wall elements of a hat'box body, each of two of said fold lines, at opposite sides of the box-bottom element, being a line along which one side wall element is hinged to the box-bottom element, and each of said two side wall elements being laterally extended to include other side wall elements demarked therefrom by other of said fold lines; the sheet being extended outward at opposite sides thereof beyond the bottom element, intermediate said opposed wall elements, and said intermediate opposed extensions having fold lines and cuts therein which define hat anchor elements hinged to opposite sides of the box bottom to form the hat anchor.

3. An article of manufacture, consisting of a sheet having fold lines which define the bottom and side wall elements of a hat box body, each of two of said fold lines, at opposite sides of the boxbottom element, being a line along which one side wall element is hinged to the box-bottom element, and each of said two side wall elements being laterally extended to include other side wall elements demarked therefrom by other of said fold lines; the sheet being extended outward at opposite sides thereof beyond the bottom element, intermediate said opposed wall elements,

4. An article of manufacture, consisting of. a

sheet having fold lines which define a rectangular bottom and side wall elements of a hat box body, one of the side wall elements being connected to the bottom element along one of said fold lines, and another of said side wall elements being similarly connected to the bottom element at the opposite side of the latter, each of said opposed side wall elements being laterally extended to include other side wall elements defined by other of said fold lines, and said opposed side Walls, by means of said extensions, being connectible, one to the other, to form the third and fourth walls of the box body; the sheet being extended outward at opposite sides thereof, beyond the bottom element, intermediate said opposed wall elements, and said intermediate opposed extensions having fold lines and cuts therein which define hat anchor elements hinged to opposite sides of the box bottom, and connectible, one to the other, over the bottom to form the hat anchor.

5. An article of manufacture, consisting of a. sheet having fold lines which define a rectangular bottom and side wall elements of a hat box body, one of the side wall elements being connected to the bottom element along one of said fold lines, and another of said side wall elements being similarly connected to the bottom element at the opposite side of the latter, each of said opposed side wall elements being laterally extended to include other side wall elements defined by other of said fold lines, and said opposed side walls, by means of said extensions, being connectible, one to the other, to form the third and fourth walls of the box body; the sheet being extended outward at opposite sides thereof, beyond the bottom element, intermediate said opposed wall elements, and said intermediate opposed extensions having fold lines and cuts therein which define hat anchor elements hinged to opposite sides of the box bottom, and connectible, one to the other, over the bottom to form the hat anchor, and which define webs for connecting said third and fourth wall elements to the corresponding edges of the bottom element.

6. An article of manufacture, consisting of a sheet having fold lines which define the bottom and side wall elements of a hat box body, two of said fold lines being lines along which two of said side wall elements are hinged to the bottom element, and each of said two side wall elements having at least one lateral extension secured thereto along a fold line and functioning in operative position as other side wall elements, sheets integrally connected to said bottom along two other of said fold lines defining said bottom, each of the last named sheets extending outwardly and having fold lines diverging inwardly from its respective fold line; said last named sheets in operative position being inclined with respect to the bottom and overlying the same, and having integrally connected thereto flaps forming anchor parts having means adjacent the ends thereof, each co-operating with means on the other anchor fi-ap to secure said flaps together in operative position.

AARON BERKE. 

